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We Need to Talk about America
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The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's evolving ties with the United States as the power balance in Asia changes and as Washington continues to face bitter domestic divides. We Need to Talk about America looks at the future of the alliance in an era in which the US's global role and stature – which once seemed so constant – are becoming less stable and less certain.
Essays include:
Brothers in arms: Why the alliance is making Australia less safe
Shaky ground: Can the US alliance survive China and MAGA?
Freedom fight: Why the world still needs a strong United States
The view from America: Australia, Uncle Sam needs you
PLUS correspondence, The Fix, and more
Essays include:
Brothers in arms: Why the alliance is making Australia less safe
Shaky ground: Can the US alliance survive China and MAGA?
Freedom fight: Why the world still needs a strong United States
The view from America: Australia, Uncle Sam needs you
PLUS correspondence, The Fix, and more
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“Sam Roggeveen and Emma Shortis' essays were interesting and insightful. Roggeveen focusing on the AUKUS deal and its implications for Australian saftey/standing with China - I appreciated the nuance in this one especially the part where he talks about the fact that this could essentially be the Cold War again but with nuclear military capabilities (aka worse than the Cold War). And its good to read people finally discuss the idea that Australia should not have taken such a strong alliance with the US.
‘Australia has taken the decision to bring US combat forces, and its military strategy to fight China, onto our shores. We have also chosen to build military capabilities of our own that are designed expressly to contribute to American operations to defeat China. These fateful decisions threaten to draw Australia into a war that is not central to our security interests, and which could end in nuclear catastrophe... But as a military stronghold for the US efforts to achieve regional dominance and defeat China... Australia is materially eroding its security for no gain’
A quote that really resonated with me from Emma Shortis' essay: ‘what could we bring to the world if we weren't so afraid?’
A question to ponder.
As for the other two authors, Michael J Green and Dennis Glover. Just admit you're on America's payroll and we'll call it a day.”
About Jonathan Pearlman
Jonathan Pearlman is the editor of Australian Foreign Affairs and the world editor of The Saturday Paper. He has been a foreign correspondent and a politics reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Straits Times and The Telegraph. He studied at the University of New South Wales and the University of Oxford.
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